Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday, executives from Cigna, CVS Caremark and other PBMs stuck to their familiar tune of blaming manufacturer list prices for fueling skyrocketing prices.

According to BJC Healthcare officials, they learned of the breach on November 29 and after conducting preliminary investigations, discovered that the malware permitted electronic collection of patient information in the portal from October 25 to November 8.

In addition to the monetary settlement, ACH will undertake a robust corrective action plan that includes the adoption of business associate agreements, a complete enterprise-wide risk analysis, and comprehensive policies and procedures to comply with the HIPAA Rules.

According to an FDA report, there was an average of 164 cyber threats are detected per thousand IoMT devices. Vulnerabilities are multiplying as more IoMT devices are being granted authorized-user access to hospital networks. Here are some ways yorganizations can stay ahead of these IoMT cyber threats

Independence Blue Cross Privacy Office became aware of the incident on July 19 after they were notified that information of its patients was accessible online to the public. The data uploaded by the employee was accessible to the public between 23rd of April and 20th of July

According to the latest Internal Revenue Service data, the number of Americans joining the so-called healthcare sharing ministries (religion-based cost-sharing plans) rose 74% from 2014 to 2016. An alliance for the groups said that more than 1 million people now participate in such programs.

According to the study, this is the eighth consecutive year that healthcare organizations have had the highest costs associated with data breaches per lost or stolen record. Ponemon gauged the average cost per lost or stolen record across all sectors at $148.

According to an Accenture survey, by 2030 70% of front-office jobs in the banking industry will be lost to AI. These include 485,000 tellers, 219,000 customer service representatives, and 174,000 loan interviewers and clerks. They will be replaced by chatbots, voice assistants and automated authentication and biometric technology.

Government agencies and providers of healthcare across the United States have seen an increase in the number of cybersecurity breaches in the past couple of months, with sensitive information from hundreds of thousands of people being left exposed as the sector struggles to find an adequate defense mechanism.

Sensitive patient data may have been left exposed after employees of Sunspire Health fell victims to a targeted phishing campaign. Exposed information includes Social Security numbers and health insurance information.

The judge wrote in the decision that the undisputed material facts made available to him established that MD Anderson “was not only aware of the need to encrypt devices in order to assure that confidential data including ePHI not be improperly disclosed, but it established a policy requiring the encryption and protection of devices containing ePHI.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar while speaking at the meeting for the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living in Washington said that the PDPM would change how SNFs are paid and, in a positive manner.

Andrew Kennedy and Josh Magri, leaders in the Financial Services Roundtable believe that data centers are tied, since the new upgrade shifts the receiver from the enterprise to the individual, making it difficult for network threats to be scanned in real time

The co-authors of The Law of Digital Health explains the benefits and challenges telemedicine and big data would bring to the standards of care and gives reasons why hospitals should adopt the technology